Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets in London in 1984. He delivered some of the group’s most urgent and incisive verses.CreditDavid Corio/Redferns, via Getty Images By Giovanni Russonello June 13, 2018 Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, who helped establish the foundation for hip-hop as a member of the Last Poets and in his own solo [...]
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Jimpster (Jamie Odell) has been producing music since 1992. He currently co-runs the Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur labels and is a world-renowned producer and DJ. We spoke to Odell about the changes he’s seen in house music over the years, and attempt to uncover the secrets of his sound. Photo by Tom Oldham. The deep house scene owes more to [...]
There's great value in meeting new people and talking to them face to face, especially in today's social media-driven world of faceless private messages. So far we’ve covered a huge variety of techniques and tips to jumpstart your DJ/producer career and being getting noticed. In the first part of this series you built micro [...]
Mr. Fingers' Cerebral Hemispheres comes out April 13 on Alleviated Music. Marc Sethi/Courtesy of the artist As you make your way through all 100+ minutes of Cerebral Hemispheres, Larry Heard's first album of new music released as Mr. Fingers in almost a quarter-century, the thing that may prove most startling is the variety. The house music sound [...]
As an expected package of music copyright legislation continues to take shape in the United States House of Representatives, a Senate version of the Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act was introduced yesterday afternoon (Mar. 22) by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.), Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Kamala Harris(D-Calif). The AMP Act, which was re-introduced in the [...]
DJ Khaled and his fans. The way you handle your fans online as well as offline will have a huge influence on the speed at which you grow your influence as a DJ/producer. This week in our in-depth series about getting noticed as a DJ, we’ll tie branding, content, and social media [...]
Ian Friday, Josh Milan, Dawn Tallman, Mike City and Will Downing are among the artists to join Paris Cesvette on her quality debut LP. The wonderful Paris Cesvette does it up big on her inspiring debut album. Don’t look for 12 tracks of inert tech house here, as collaborations with Ian Friday, Will Downing, [...]
"Siyabonga Kubheka (Budda Sage) A Deejay/Producer Of Electronic Afrohouse Blended with Minimal Techno, Afrohouse. He is mostly Based In Durban (South Africa) started his music career in 2012 till, he has met people like Soul Varti, King Wave Mali etc.. In 2013 he released a single track titled 'Welldone' from Soul Varti's Record Label. 2016 [...]
Out soon on Love Vibration Nation The CoCreators have been tearing it up recently with chart-busting remixes of artists such as Coqui Selection, Mikel Gil, Rico Garcia, Luke Wheeler, Townsend, James Bratch, Loz J Yates and many others, enjoying over 40 chart positions in the last six months alone. Now the label bosses of Love [...]